It’s my great pleasure to announce that my next two novels have been acquired by Mark Teppo at Resurrection House. Chimpanzee and Totem are the second and third books in the thematic cluster that began with Noise, and they will be released in 2014 and 2015, respectively.
I’m very excited to work with Mark to bring these two books fully to life. I’ve worked on several different projects with him over the years, often trading editorial roles, and he knows the dark turns and bright lights and imaginary friends of my fiction sometimes even better than I do. The excitement he’s bringing to these books is outmatched only by own, and then only barely. I can’t wait for the journey.
Please, help yourself to descriptions of Chimpanzee and Totem
(Special thanks to my agent Kris O’Higgins at Scribe Agency.)
Here’s a gem that I’ve been holding onto for a long time. If you enjoyed Noise, you might enjoy this magical realist look at a resource-based religion engineering a dark, exploitative, and uncomfortably familiar society…
I’ve had the opportunity to hear Possessed by Paul James play several times, twice with his stellar touring partner Delaney Davidson, but it’s never occurred to me to encourage others to seek these guys out. They put on another great show this holiday weekend at Dan’s Silverleaf—this time, I remembered to tell you about them.
Gooseberry Bluff is not a school for the chosen ones. It’s a school for those who have run out of choices. An unlikely place for an international conspiracy. But after suspicious paranormal signatures are reported and a professor of magical history goes missing, the possibility of demon trafficking seems more and more likely.
My pal and fellow author Barth Anderson is doing some crowd-sourcing for his next novel, Factory Farm Inc., a “mystery/thriller with a dairy farmer as sleuth, uncovering a flu outbreak and a string of murders in the sordid underbelly of the corporate farming world.” Seeing what he did with The Patron Saint of Plagues and The Magician and the Fool, FFI has got to be punchy, honest, quirky, and dark. You really oughtta get in on this.
Barth’s one of the guys who helped me figure out the publishing industry way back, so you just know his going mustang like this will open all sorts of narrative possibilities that the Old World probably wouldn’t otherwise indulge him. It’s gonna be boss.
Darin is the author of three novels: Noise (2010), Chimpanzee (2014), and Totem (2015). After teaching collegiate writing and literature for a number of years, he now writes full-time for id Software, a video game design studio. He holds a B.A., an M.A., and a Ph.D. in English Literature and Theory, and he has served in various editorial capacities for a number of independent presses and journals. He lives in Texas with his wife, where he dreams of empty places.
The second novel in the thematic cluster that began with Noise, Chimpanzee is an existential, Near-Fi conspiracy theory, set in a dystopian, post-collapse America.
In the aftermath of the switch from analog to digital TV, an anarchic movement known as Salvage hijacks the unused airwaves. Mixed in with the static’s random noise are dire warnings of the imminent economic, political, and social collapse of civilization—and cold-blooded lessons on how to survive the fall and prosper in the harsh new order that will inevitably arise from the ashes of the old. Learn more
It’s my great pleasure to announce that my next two novels have been acquired by Mark Teppo at Resurrection House. Chimpanzee and Totem are the second and third books in the thematic cluster that began with Noise, and they will be released in 2014 and 2015, respectively.
Darin is the author of three novels: Noise (2010), Chimpanzee (2014), and Totem (2015). After teaching collegiate writing and literature for a number of years, he now writes full-time for id Software, a video game design studio. He holds a B.A., an M.A., and a Ph.D. in English Literature and Theory, and he has served in various editorial capacities for a number of independent presses and journals. He lives in Texas with his wife, where he dreams of empty places.
